3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$181k - $226k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the frontend architecture for the next-generation console, including application structure, routing, state boundaries, shared abstractions, and maintainability.
- Design and maintain cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure, including auth flows, CORS policies, CSRF protections, cookies, session strategies, and multiple deployment environments.
- Build and operate a frontend serving platform for multiple Tailscale products under a unified development workflow.
- Establish shared infrastructure, conventions, design patterns, and guardrails for cohesive product experiences and accessible production-quality UI.
- Partner with Product Design and collaborate with Growth, Product, infrastructure, and engineering teams on user experiences, experimentation, analytics instrumentation, and feature rollouts.
- Define and improve frontend integration and end-to-end testing strategies, local development workflows, build pipelines, preview deployments, release processes, and operational reliability.
- Provide technical leadership through reviews, mentoring, and platform standards, and participate in an on-call rotation every few weeks to triage and mitigate incidents.
Requirements
- Deep experience building and operating production React applications at scale.
- Strong understanding of HTTP semantics, browser security boundaries, authentication flows, cookies, storage, CORS, and CSRF.
- Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, or shared libraries that enable teams to ship with strong guardrails.
- Experience driving a unified console or platform vision across disparate frontend codebases.
- Strong judgment regarding frontend architecture, standardization, abstraction, and maintainability.
- Experience designing scalable frontend testing strategies.
- Ability to collaborate across design, growth, infrastructure, and developer tooling functions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain tradeoffs and influence technical direction.
- High ownership, autonomy, and ability to drive ambiguous problems to completion.
- Preferred experience with AI-assisted frontend development tooling, design systems, component libraries, feature flagging, analytics, experimentation, progressive delivery, identity, admin, B2B SaaS, or security-sensitive products.
Benefits
- Inclusive, flexible, remote-first work environment with virtual and in-person social events and a corporate co-working program.
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and other group benefits with no waiting period.
- Annual company retreat, team off-sites, and support for intentional in-person collaboration.
- $1500 USD annually for professional development, plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
- Flexible paid time off program.
- Company-owned laptop, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $1000 USD for workstation customization.
- Parental leave top-ups for up to 26 weeks from the first day.
- Full-time role with participation in an on-call rotation every few weeks.
About Tailscale
Tailscale builds a software-defined mesh VPN that lets individuals and organizations securely connect devices and services using WireGuard and single sign-on. It sells a subscription SaaS with free and paid plans, offering features like access control lists, device authentication, and admin tooling for teams and enterprises. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto, the company is privately held and used from hobby projects to corporate networks.